This is beginning to sound rather easy to implement: have a little
listener process monitoring keyboard activity.. whenever a key is
pressed, the touchpad is automatically set "off" for say 500-600ms,
after which it is set "on" again. No need to fiddle with drivers,
key-combos... User must be able to set delay, with delay=0 meaning
touchpad permanently off.
Any takers?
Basil
On 09/06/2016 11:35 PM, Mark F wrote:
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Mark F <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I use Windows-key + Space-key. I don't recall hitting it by accident.
Upon further reflection, that could be because I don't make use of any
keyboard shortcuts on a regular basis. Maybe if I were in the habit of
hitting various key combos I could empathize with Aere's caution.
But, it seems like that would happen with any keyboard shortcut. I've
been using ctrl+alt+f1 to bring up a console (then ctrl+alt+fn+f7) to
go back to the desktop (a workaround for the mouse cursor disappearing
after locking/unlocking the screen). If I accidentally hit that, I
would know how to undo it.
I can see how, if someone didn't know of the shortcut they could cause
Aere's situation to arise.
But, It's possible I could hit a different key (in the scenario I
described above) and get something I wouldn't know how to get out of.
It's not like the touchpad scenario doesn't already exist(?) in other
ways.
A solution would be if the on/off toggle were a GUI under
menu-settings, and the shortcut could be enabled/disabled there? Then
the user would have a reasonable expectation of knowing about the
shortcut if someday they accidentally toggled the touchpad.
About the documentation of keyboard shortcuts, I often wish Lubuntu
had a "Welcome" screen after installation, like Mint does. Things like
keyboard shortcuts could fit there. I'm sure experienced users think
that would be lame. But, the way Windows is becoming controversial
with its users, it seems to me like it would be good to have the
basics presented to new users. It's not that bad to check "Don't show
me again."
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